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all of our elected families. and this is a very special time for many other families in our state for this reason. people all across washington stood up for fairness and family in approving marriage equality last november. we should all be proud. [applause] we should all be proud. the vote on referendum 74 represents the best of who we are as a state. it should be an inspiration for the progress we can make, always towards equality, always towards fairness, always towards justice all across the state of washington. it has been an amazing journey over the past year and a half, as i've traveled to all corners of the state. i am a 5th generation son of the state of washington, and am proud to have roots in this state that are as wide as they are deep. my family came to this state as fishermen and gold mining engineers. my grandmother raised four boys as a single mother working at bartels drugstore. my uncle and cousins build the best airplanes in the world at boeing, my dad -- [applause] my dad was a biology teacher
all of our elected families. and this is a very special time for many other families in our state for this reason. people all across washington stood up for fairness and family in approving marriage equality last november. we should all be proud. [applause] we should all be proud. the vote on referendum 74 represents the best of who we are as a state. it should be an inspiration for the progress we can make, always towards equality, always towards fairness, always towards justice all across the...
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and let the house as a body work its bill just as the american people elected it to do. mr. president, may i ask unanimous consent that the period of morning business be now extended until 6:30 p.m. today and all provisions of the previous order remain in effect. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. chambliss: i rise to speak today about our tax code as well as our economic future. there's a problem with our tax code, one that hits home with nearly all americans, and that is its complexity. in the fast past few years i have met with hundreds and hundreds of constituents who are worried about this issue, individuals, small businesses, farms and large corporations alike struggle with meeting their obligations to the i.r.s. because of the complexity of our current tax code. earlier this month the i.r.s. taxpayer advocate revealed some startling figures in the agency's annual record report to congress. it estimates that individuals and businesses spend 6.1 billi
and let the house as a body work its bill just as the american people elected it to do. mr. president, may i ask unanimous consent that the period of morning business be now extended until 6:30 p.m. today and all provisions of the previous order remain in effect. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. chambliss: i rise to speak today about our tax code as well as our economic...
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after election. continue to support brothers and sisters in the labor move. we'll engage young americans -- [applause] yes, thank you. [applause] we'll engage young americans across the country building a successful model to nurture our next generation of democratic leaders. we'll do that in part by expanding on the success of jen 44, building a finance arm of the dnc engaging in mobilizing the next generation of democrats. we'll continue the tradition of immigration, and ensure a level playing field for workers continuing to fight for comprehensive immigration reform. [applause] we'll make it clear that democrats welcome dreamers who see america as a land of opportunity. for americans, after years of determination, our nation is timely seeing historic progress. we have the largest number of openly gay members in congress and openly gay united states senator, and a president who stands up for lgtb rights. [applause] as democrats, our party will proudly continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the
after election. continue to support brothers and sisters in the labor move. we'll engage young americans -- [applause] yes, thank you. [applause] we'll engage young americans across the country building a successful model to nurture our next generation of democratic leaders. we'll do that in part by expanding on the success of jen 44, building a finance arm of the dnc engaging in mobilizing the next generation of democrats. we'll continue the tradition of immigration, and ensure a level playing...
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the chances are we should have to because the six waited longer than we should have and it's the next election cycle or partisanship for the public interest has already taken and economic toll on what could have been because the bottom line is not only do we have to put these kind of savings policies in place, we have to be thoughtful about how we do them and when we are talking about spending, we have to think about how we not only bring spending down, but we readjust and prioritize and the budget completely emphasizes consumption instead of assumption. we need to turn that on its head and when we talk about revenue there is no question that was an aging population you have to bring in more revenue than you have in the past but if you do that in the same outdated anti-competitive tax system if you use this opportunity and you are bold about tax reform that we need on the individual and corporate side to open up our economic system you can do this in a way that is good for the economy so we have hard choices to make and we should give ourselves the time to put the policies in place that deal w
the chances are we should have to because the six waited longer than we should have and it's the next election cycle or partisanship for the public interest has already taken and economic toll on what could have been because the bottom line is not only do we have to put these kind of savings policies in place, we have to be thoughtful about how we do them and when we are talking about spending, we have to think about how we not only bring spending down, but we readjust and prioritize and the...
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we've had that next election. the president has been re-elected for four years. members here have been re-elected. we have this challenge now in front of us but continuing with the status quo, governing via crisis, failing to address our spending problem must be unacceptable. 2013 is the year. 2014, we're back in another election. we all know that the precious six to nine to 12 months that lay before us is the time post-election, with the president's re-election and new members here, this is the time we have to step up and address our debt and deficit problem. if we don't do so now, most experts who look at this -- and i'm not an economist -- but most economists, whether they're liberal or conservative, whether they are nonpartisan or partisan, whether they are ideological or nonideological have virtually all come to the conclusion that unless we address this now in 2013, with an election year in 2014, 2015 will be too late. we have seen what's happening in europe, we see what's happening in japan, we see what's happening around the world, a world hungry for amer
we've had that next election. the president has been re-elected for four years. members here have been re-elected. we have this challenge now in front of us but continuing with the status quo, governing via crisis, failing to address our spending problem must be unacceptable. 2013 is the year. 2014, we're back in another election. we all know that the precious six to nine to 12 months that lay before us is the time post-election, with the president's re-election and new members here, this is...
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it is more than just about that we have to ask of our elected officials. we have to ask her leadership as well. >> i will just add on to that. my own feeling is that to get some change along the lines, i think you were suggesting that it will require more gun owners to speak out in favor of common sense regulations. i think that the politicians who feel like they have to work hard for their nra a+ ratings would maybe feel less like that is necessary if they had another group of gunowners who could validate what they can civil to be regulations on firearms. as has been alluded to, but we will go into more detail tomorrow, the vast majority of gun owners are supportive of most of the measures that we are talking about here. and i think that's the most critical thing. again, a politician being able to say that they are doing something that the gunowners agree with. because they don't want to alienate gunowners who vote. >> i have a question. i just got a documentary on saturday called the house that i live in about the war on drugs and it talks about how ther
it is more than just about that we have to ask of our elected officials. we have to ask her leadership as well. >> i will just add on to that. my own feeling is that to get some change along the lines, i think you were suggesting that it will require more gun owners to speak out in favor of common sense regulations. i think that the politicians who feel like they have to work hard for their nra a+ ratings would maybe feel less like that is necessary if they had another group of gunowners...
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as a result of winning the election, he was able to get higher taxes on americans at the higher end of the income scale, but no one is fooled, and math doesn't lie. increasing taxes on higher income earners is not going to make much of a dent in our trillion-dollar deficits. the fact is that even if the president had received all of the revenue from the expiration of all of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and tack rates, federal revenue would have come in at this historical average of just over 18% of g.d.p. but spending continues to rise at an average of 23% of g.d.p. over the same period of time, more than two points ahead of its historical average, and thus the problem, the fact that we are spending more than we can afford, we are spending more than we receive. actions speak louder than words, mr. president. president obama may talk about the need to rein in spending, although lately he has even rejected that, but his administration refuses to act, and instead the president started off hisec t doubling dn on what? the nee for mor taxes are the american people bei taxed toea? itotust the
as a result of winning the election, he was able to get higher taxes on americans at the higher end of the income scale, but no one is fooled, and math doesn't lie. increasing taxes on higher income earners is not going to make much of a dent in our trillion-dollar deficits. the fact is that even if the president had received all of the revenue from the expiration of all of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and tack rates, federal revenue would have come in at this historical average of just over 18%...
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we look forward to working with our elected officials and all of goodwill towards this end. thank you. >> thank you, ambassador. so as you can see by this range of perspectives that the differences are not great, but the unity is very clear, that congress -- that the 113th congress must take advantage of the opportunity that lies ahead to pass broad immigration reform. so with this, i would like to take questions from the press and, please, as you ask your question, please introduce yourself, your name as well as your outlet. and, again, we'll only take questions from the working press. >> bill gibson from the south florida sun sentinel. i'd like to hear more about the republic super pac. will jeb bush and business people from some of the high-impact states like florida be a part of that? >> at this point we have -- [laughter] the, we're getting all the paperwork together, and we should be ready to go very, very soon. obviously, the role of the super pac is to raise money so that we in turn can use that to support immigration in districts where a republican is supportive. we
we look forward to working with our elected officials and all of goodwill towards this end. thank you. >> thank you, ambassador. so as you can see by this range of perspectives that the differences are not great, but the unity is very clear, that congress -- that the 113th congress must take advantage of the opportunity that lies ahead to pass broad immigration reform. so with this, i would like to take questions from the press and, please, as you ask your question, please introduce...
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. >> that is a good question as we know often in the context of the election polling survey research firms have proprietary algorithms and usually four, five, six questions that allow them to break out likely voters to read our goal and motivation for this research is something different. for this purpose we care about the views of all americans. and so, we wanted to report the rate of support among americans broadly speaking would. so we didn't ask that likely voter battery to be able to sense that data. there are other i think important ways once we have time to further analyze the data beyond what will appear in the chapter that may be of interest in terms of the region of the country. it's important also correlated with a gun ownership so that has to be done with care. parents versus non-parents. we talked about how age matters on this issue, and so just being here in the university context i think is important to understand how younger people versus older people think about issues related to gun violence to see whether there are generational effect and that gives insight into wh
. >> that is a good question as we know often in the context of the election polling survey research firms have proprietary algorithms and usually four, five, six questions that allow them to break out likely voters to read our goal and motivation for this research is something different. for this purpose we care about the views of all americans. and so, we wanted to report the rate of support among americans broadly speaking would. so we didn't ask that likely voter battery to be able to...
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night in the country i had the opportunity to join the ambassador for a dinner with a number of newly elected libyan parliamentarians. they were optimistic about building a democracy, creating a vibrant economy and restoring fundamental human rights for the libyan people. and he was as enthusiastic as they were about the prospects. there's no question that he will be missed by all who knew him and who worked with them. one of the things that really troubles me, madam secretary, is the hoops that we on this committee have had to jump through to get to the facts surrounding the deaths of these public servants at the state department has laid him delayed coming forth with information. and when this committee was finally presented with relevant data, it amounted oftentimes what would be called a document dump. hundreds of pages of paper in why disarray, in no particular order, either in terms of relevance or in chronology. often in duplicate but in different binders, making it very difficult to locate documents that were of any help. our public servants in libya were murdered on september 11. it'
night in the country i had the opportunity to join the ambassador for a dinner with a number of newly elected libyan parliamentarians. they were optimistic about building a democracy, creating a vibrant economy and restoring fundamental human rights for the libyan people. and he was as enthusiastic as they were about the prospects. there's no question that he will be missed by all who knew him and who worked with them. one of the things that really troubles me, madam secretary, is the hoops...
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the moderate that was elected? if you were clear-eyed shouldn't you know that al qaeda would roam freely in and around benghazi? as my friend from pennsylvania pointed out, there were al qaeda flags launches out to protest what they were flying all over benghazi. if you were clear-eyed, were you clear-eyed and they left benghazi because they had attacked? why did for americans die? what was so important that the ambassador stevens coming and he knew there was a security threat in benghazi, and he went there on september 10th and 11th, what was so important for him to go to eastern libya knowing all these threats, knowing they are, and i think that you misspoke earlier when you said you didn't know if any requests that were denied for more security june 7th of the e-mail exchange between ambassadors stevens when he requested for the team or actually in additional team and the reply from john sada unfortunately it cannot support the request. there was a request made for more security, and was denied on june 7th. mada
the moderate that was elected? if you were clear-eyed shouldn't you know that al qaeda would roam freely in and around benghazi? as my friend from pennsylvania pointed out, there were al qaeda flags launches out to protest what they were flying all over benghazi. if you were clear-eyed, were you clear-eyed and they left benghazi because they had attacked? why did for americans die? what was so important that the ambassador stevens coming and he knew there was a security threat in benghazi, and...
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to take action on real and meaningful election reform. regard lestless of which candidates we voted for last november, we can all agree that in the world's greatest democracy in this year, 2013, we should put in place systems that ensure that every voter will be able to cast their ballot without unnecessary delays, red tape or restriction in our next elections. that's why i'm looking forward to working with my colleagues here in the senate with leaders in state and local governments across the country, and with folks in the u.s. department of justice to discuss ways we can reform our election process to make voting more accessible for more americans. in his second inaugural address delivered just 24 monday, president obama made a point to tie voting rights to civil rights. president obama spoke of the long american march towards justice. he said on the first steps of that march of the journey toward a better, fairer, more equal society where every american regardless of race, gender, orientation or status has the same shot at success that
to take action on real and meaningful election reform. regard lestless of which candidates we voted for last november, we can all agree that in the world's greatest democracy in this year, 2013, we should put in place systems that ensure that every voter will be able to cast their ballot without unnecessary delays, red tape or restriction in our next elections. that's why i'm looking forward to working with my colleagues here in the senate with leaders in state and local governments across the...